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March 10, 2008

Wiki Day! Meet in Du Bois 720.

Contents 1 Today's in-lab activities 1.1 "gettin' ready" to login to the wiki 1.2 Schein Team report prep & planning 1.3 review ideas and past products 2 Today's in-class activities 3 Homework assignments 3.1 Extra Credit 3.1.1 coding: blog links 4 What we did last week

Today's in-lab activities

"gettin' ready" to login to the wiki

1. We will not (necessarily) create logins today but you need to begin thinking about your identity/representation based on the ultimate coursewiki product/project...
2. Start thinking! You will need to make a conscious decision whether you will be anonymous (private) or public (known) with your Username. (A proposal was floated to use your anonymous Wordpress username...)
3. Go to consistency and consensus: mutually exclusive?, read, and respond.

Schein Team report prep & planning

How do you want to make your reports from last week's observations (Week 6) and today's (Week 7)?

Ok, so if you want to designate wiki authors for the second reports, they/you can go ahead and create a login. Or you can submit to Steph via email one more time and I'll post to the Wiki.

review ideas and past products

• more ideas and examples
• newbies and an oldie
• What's Going On (ENG112 - Section 36 - Fall 2007)
• Communication Studies: Semiotic Analyses of Cultural Texts (COM375 - Section 9 - Fall 2007)
• Piecing It Together (ENG 112 - Section 71 - Spring 2007)
• College Writing includes a special section, *Wikimedia for Dummies - you might find this useful! (ENG112 - Section 68 - Fall 2006)
• Writing as Communication includes a collective rant, "What's Wrong with Writing," and two creative compilations of students' envisioned futures in the field of Communication. Get to know the characters in that class (COM375 - Spring 2006), and compare their presentation with that of the first-year students from all majors (ENG 112 - Section 71 - Spring 2007).
• UMass against violence
• Time to Decide (COM352 - Group Dynamics - Spring 2008)

Today's in-class activities

• Read (to yourself): "Using Feedback to Clear Up Misunderstandings in Important Relationships" by Barbara Benedict Bunker, Reading Book for Human Relations Training, L. Porter and B. Mohr (Eds.), 1982.
• Peer Evaluations #7 [draw especially on your specialized "Schein Team" knowledge]

1. Select the top three people whose contributions to the group you have the most difficulty understanding or appreciating. Articulate as clearly possible the behaviors you observe - not the meanings you assume! - please add a note about how your feedback to them tells us about you (Giver's Fact)
2. Select the top three people whom you most admire, appreciate, and/or respect because of their contributions to class so far and give them feedback as to why. Please be specific and detailed (include evidence).

• Schein Team Second Reports....compare notes on the layout/organization and presentation of the first reported information. Make a plan for collecting last week's observations from your teammates and combining it with today's observations in preparation for the next round of reports which are due (in the wiki or by email to Steph) by March 17 (yes, even though it is spring break!).

• Nominations for participants in today's fishbowl
• Fishbowl J ~ what are the important decisions to make today, now?

Homework assignments

1. Schein Team Second Reports (asap or at least by March 17), either email to Steph or post directly into the CourseWiki.
2. Post a description in your Wordpress Weblog concerning your part of the CourseWiki. What are you "personally and/or academically interested in" that you can bring to this collaborative, collective project? Include links to relevant examples (I'm thinking more along the lines of how people are using media than content per se but if you have content sources already definitely include that info, too!) Don't be silly, review the possibilities and/or come up with something equivalent. FYI, I've been adding more as I come across them. Steph^(talk) 15:07, 13 March 2008 (EDT)
3. Go to Steph's post, Progress! a Working Definition, and "leave a reply" including a link to your proposal. Pitch it baby!
4. ADDITION: Bring one hard copy of your idea/contribution-to-the-coursewiki to class the day after Spring Break - Monday, March 24!!!
5. Read all of Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison (available at Food for Thought Books in Amherst).

Extra Credit

1. Read and comment - "leave a reply" - on classmates posts about the terms. How can you imagine this info helping us design the coursewiki? Is it the vocabulary or the technique of analysis that could benefit us the most? Why? How? FOR CREDIT, post links to the comments in the thread, continuity of experience (no avoiding the storm), with a brief explanatory teaser.

coding: blog links

Spiff up your weblog, create a blogroll, and learn how to do internal links in the Wordpress weblog comment boxes. Use HTML code (it won't kill you):

<a href=" URL here/no spaces ">highlighted/linked text here</a>

it really isn't that hard - just be precise.

If you improve your Wordpress weblog post STEPH A MESSAGE on her User talk page! (See the note, there, about how to leave your wiki-signature.)

~ Steph^(talk) 07:53, 31 March 2008 (EDT)

What we did last week

We reconfigured the Schein Teams and took our first vote. Here's the whole day's plan (Class Six) and homework (midterm). Steph's reflections: continuity of experience (no avoiding the storm) and students reflections are in the comments to What are you/we going to produce?